In May he gave Portugal their first-ever win at Eurovision, topping both the jury vote and the televote before securing an invitation to The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

And, in the week after his win, Salvador Sobral and his composer sister Luísa have opened their hearts to the public in a candid interview with the Portuguese broadcaster RTP.

Speaking on ‘Luísa e Salvador: A Entrevista’ (Luísa and Salvador: The Interview), Europe’s favourite siblings discussed every step they took from the moment Luísa was invited to write a song for Festival da Canção — the Portuguese national selection — right through to Portugal’s momentous win.

“The secret of the victory was the fact that the song produced some emotion in people,” the “Amar Pelos Dois” singer says. “No one is indifferent. You also have people that hate it, which is completely legitimate.”

Luísa added her two cents: “Well, the secret was having no secret at all. The fact that it was a genuine song was decisive…”

During his week at Eurovision, the EBU pressured Salvador to stop wearing his “SOS Refugees” sweatshirt. But afterwards the UN praised the singer for speaking out and later invited him to become an ambassador for the cause. He politely declined.

“I don’t want to be an activist,” he said. “I am simply a humanist. I don’t know the politics behind the issues.”

Apparently that wasn’t the only problem the Portuguese star had with the organisers of the event.

Ahead of his last rehearsal before the Grand Final, Salvador and Luísa wrote an English version of “Amar Pelos Dois” and intended to sing it during the dress rehearsal — just to keep things interesting. The EBU threatened to disqualify the country if they did.

When talking to our William Lee Adams, Salvador had already stressed the fact that he was rehearsing too much for his taste, something he is not used to as a jazz musician who focuses on spontaneous feelings and improvisation.

While discussing Festival da Canção, Luísa revealed the emotional pangs she felt after her brother, who has been battling medical issues, won the contest.

“I started crying because I thought I had deceived the Portuguese public that voted for us,” she said. “We won and I immediately thought that my brother wouldn’t be able to leave the country for Eurovision.”

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Walking down memory lane, Luísa also revealed that there was another song besides “Amar Pelos Dois” on the table but that she and Salvador ultimately decided to send the jazzy ballad that conquered Europe.

For the siblings, everything felt very strange when the televote came through. “No one understood we had won because the Bulgarians were also celebrating,” Luisa said. “When I entered the car in Portugal I started crying, overwhelmed with everything.”

That got to Salvador: “I can’t see my sister crying, so when she started I also did.”

Do you think the EBU was right to threaten disqualification if Salvador rehearsed in English? Or do you think they should be more permissive when it comes to rehearsals? Tell us in the comments section below!

Bernardo Pereira

Portuguese blogger Bernardo has followed Eurovision since 2006. He joined wiwibloggs in 2015, bringing plenty of sun and Iberian realness with him. His favourite ESC entry is "Euphoria" by Loreen. You can follow him on Twitter @b_tavares_p . Keep up with the latest Eurovision news and gossip by liking our Facebook page and by following the team on Twitter @wiwibloggs.

Are you even human? How can you even say that??
I bet you don’t even live in France, UK, Sweden or Belgium so shut up.
Also, if you do live there shut up and move out. You don’t get the point of all this and what’s happening in the world. People like you are all sheep heading the same way because they are scared of something everyone can do, even your white old neighbour who likes to bake cake and play with his or her grand-children.
The refugees are no threat or evil, it’s people like you who want to fill the world with hate and fear, and this points to another question: who is the real terrorist here?

I never saw such stupid comments as here in this post. Salvador haters are in their right to do so. Of course the comments are beyond stupid, but if it makes them feel better, let them. But it is even more stupid to care about what they say and to reply to their petty little comments that don’t go beyond the ESC bubble. Don’t belittle yourself guys with those miserable little monkeys with their little miserable lifes.

I have neutral attitude to Salvador but I am really happy that he won over Bulgarian cocky rabbit. This emotionally unstable kiddo said he was better than anyone, and he is realistic about it!!! (hahaha), then he burst out crying like 6 month old baby and he started to apologize whole Bulgaria for not winning hahaha. What a spoiled and insanely stupid kid with sick ambitions and HUUUGE EGO. He has also no respect for the contest, he said he would smash trophy in Moscow for views in case of winning. Stupid and cocky rabbit. He has minus IQ and no clue about life. Zero respect

“For the siblings, everything felt very strange when the televote came through.
“No one understood we had won because the Bulgarians were also celebrating,” Luisa said. “When I entered the car in Portugal I started crying, overwhelmed with everything.”

That got to Salvador: “I can’t see my sister crying, so when she started I also did.” ”

Lovely read! As for being disqualified for singing English: He didn’t, so he wasn’t. The “threat” isn’t a horrible injustice, and clearly NOBODY — including Salvador — said so or even COMPLAINED in the slightest. Case closed.

I thought. Now please somebody explain to me how this makes Salvador a large-egoed “diva”, “a spoiled kid”, an “ungraceful winner” or how this justifies the even more tasteless remarks about his personality and health.

It’s quite perplexing to see how some here are so easily willing to be outraged by a complete triviality, inventing great drama where there is none, “reading” things that are not written (if they even bothered to read more than the headline), abandoning all reason and manners, just so they can spit their hate-filled abuse in Salvador’s direction. It turns out once again, stupidity and malice go effortlessly hand in hand.

I despise those 2 siblings so much, stupid people. Alma and Kasia and Martina exchanged videos to upload on their fb, because they supported each other, and this ogre Salvador makes so big deal that Kristian recorded him. The 2 ogre siblings must go to US to J.Fallon and stay there forever, ogres are no longer wanted in Europe, only if is Shrek, but not 2 ugly ogre siblings.

I always thought the whole point of rehearsals was to try new things out, experiment and improve. Of course, technical and sound issues also need to be ironed out.

Salvador asked if it would be OK to sing in English at one rehearsal just to freshen things up. He was told it was against the rules, and he complied. I seem to remember a similar case with Edyta Gorniak in 1994. She actually did sing in English at the dress, then reverted to Polish for the broadcast.

English or Polish … her stunning vocals aside … that song is for me what most hardcore eurofans love to address as the classic “boring ballad” .. cause for me that song has no emotional impact whatsoever and the fandom around it leaves me bewildered and confused … that 2nd place was way too much for what it deserved. Instead the simplicity and authenticity of Hungary deserved a lot more … at least Salvador’s simplicity and authenticity got its win deservingly. Aren’t people tired of all this recycled-commercial-pop?

Well, I for one am not a fan of most ‘shouty female ballads’ and To nie ja is not my favorite Polish entry (that would be Ale jestem from 1997).
I was just pointing out that Edyta’s infamous change from Polish to English makes no sense to someone who understands both languages. That English bit she slipped into her rehearsal really made the song more by-the-numbers sappy than it actually is.

I am laughing at some of y’all haters comments.
First of all, Salvador just told what he experienced in Kiev to the interviewer, NOT complaining. So calling him a diva just because he was speaking about that? Absurd but LOL ok. Some of y’all CAN’T even point out that he really WAS complaining (bring the receipts honey!!)
Secondly, again some of y’all bitching this shouldn’t be the song winning. LOL LOL LOL then CLEARLY you are minorities honey cause European juries, AND public all favoured him. Winner of the semi and grand final with highest points so he was robbing nobody. If you think otherwise it’s cause your favouite didn’t win. And if it wasn’t Salvador then ANY artist could have beaten your favourite. THAT’S F-ing it.

I have several points coverning the Portuguese entry.
1. He did not appear at all in the first week reheraslas and actually Louise replace him. They took a high rescue in that. No matter who is it has hard to substitute a singer that is going to perform in any contest.
2. Language was a barrier people could not understand what he is singing about.It is hard to people to sing in a language they are not familiar witrh. I think only this year Portugal enable the artists to sing in foreign language. The same obstacle exists in usng the Hebrew language and that why in the last 2 years Isreal sent songs in English.
3. The only thing that cause him to win is the simplicity of the song .Simplicity is one of the main mottos for the coming Eurovision 2018 in Portugal. Good luck Portugal and I hope the Eurovision in Portugal will as good as it used to be in other countries!!!

I don’t think this is his nightmare, a real nightmare is a terror attack on ESC or countries fighting. Also the whole planned performances applies to all acts not just Sweden, thats why there is rehearsals to perfect the planned performance on TV.
I agree that Robin’s performance wasn’t complete (vocals were average and his ‘dancing’ could’ve been way better) It honestly seemed like he made many mistakes compared to the Semi final performance (cues and all). Otherwise, I do think Sweden will win again but not for at least 5 years. ESC is going in a transition zone now so lets see if Sweden can adapt.

HAHAHA i know what you mean. But I don’t think it was really the worst thing for Bjorkman. Afterall, he was the producer of the whole show and what he did was he uplifted the performance. Based on his interviews with Wiwi, he has so much power on what is going to be on the stage. So, putting Salvador as the only act to sing in the island stage might as well be his idea and if not, he allowed it to happen and it’s a brilliant idea.
However, I got your point about Swedish lifeless “planned” performance. Especially this year! To me, even Frans last year was much more genuine. This year Robin might have the bestttt coreography out there but the whole thing was just soo manufactured. Even when he winked to the camera seemed so disingenuous.

Nightmare?
That’s to assume Salvador’s win will have any impact on the contest. it might have some but doubtful it will have that big of an impact. Some countries will probably send something similar to Salvador next year but most will keep on sending the stuff they have been sending. Next year’s winner will be something opposite; probably up-tempo and in English.

People here like to think winners influence the contest more than they but the truth is they don’t. After Conchita everyone thought it would be ballads and focus on songs, instead everybody sent technical numbers. After Måns everybody was prepared for complicated technical numbers, Jamala won.
Those who are influenced by last year’s winner rarely win because it isn’t fresh anymore. People wants a winner who brings something new, not a rehash of last year’s win

But Sergey’s performance was similar to Måns’ the prior year, and he still managed to win the televotes. Remember that people outside of the escbubble only watch this competition once a year. They’ve never seen anything like that in a long time while we see it multiple times.

Sergey performance had nothing to do with the one of Mans. Nothing. Nobody made any connection between the Sergey wall, and Mans’ baloon boy.
I can’t imagine that anyone can put these two together.
Sergey was like Ani Lorak a little, because they had the same stage director.

No, not similar. Måns did it to illustrate the song, Sergey did it cause he could. Sergey’s performance had nothing to do with the song where as Måns had everything to do with the song.
Sergey also was overtly complicated while Måns kept it pretty simple.
All in the details. Sergey thought he could win because Måns won with projections

If there is any impact that Salvador’s song can have, I hope it’s about the musical choices instead of the same bland recycled pop cause those are constantly there everywhere with no freshness in it … bring in some more credibility to the show, not just another excuse for LGBT pride parade or a debacle of swedish-made songs with no content just recycling money making tunes … besides politics interfering here and there …

Well, but you can’t expect swedes to work another way, right? That’s how they established themselves in production. And except of EBU footboard it all went perfect with winning song, so they acomplished mission. Talking about their own entry – the bar to keep all programmed was so high that only working-battery like Mans could pull it off on entertaining level. I never liked Mans’ songs but I could see his capabilities to rock anything like he did at EL for example.

We’re all glad in the end that swedish production and contest finally will part their ways at least for a year so other team(s) can influence contest in any other possible way, probably. However, keeping it simple or minimalistic may work for once, but people will always need meal’n’real in key of time so to keep production spot-on will remain as a basis, like it or not.
Swedes may cryout a bit while watching huge cash crunch going away from them though 🙂

No one in Sweden will cry. We are not happy that other contries use our talents and not always the most talented. Better for everyone to do it their way. By the way it was SVT in Sweden who tried to keep the show simple and closer to the artists in Malmö. The Swedes thought that the Eurovision had gone to technical and wanted to bring back some feeling, warmth and humour. So many misconceptions about Sweden here.

It looks like he is very aware of the power of PR and Marketing.
The rehearsals are not for ”keeping things interesting”, but for sound check, each language has different sounds, technical team needed to know exactly how your voice will sound.

That rehearsal was not for sound check, that had already been done and set.
It had nothing to do with marketing, he just doesn’t like over-rehearsing, so much so that he would often sing it in small different ways, because that is how he performs in his own shows.

The way people sarcastically choose to say “Salvador should have not won … I want my Britney Spears plastic pop back in the game … and I am gonna use this to slam that Portuguese entry whose genre of music I have no idea of … cause … I grew up with Hit Me Baby One More Time”. LOL

Guys can you change the inset picture of Salvador here……he looks like a monkey in it…. He’s putting Francesco’s gorilla to shame.. ..as if the ESC belting wasn’t enough,he is taking the best monkey award away from Italy too!!

Who the hell cares what this guy thinks anymore?
Outside in the real world he is just as forgotten as the disposable songs he is so fond of criticising.
Was there a need to change language? No, he did it because he could. That’s usually never a good idea!

Oh Denis the menace … I can feel your pain … you just want that trashy pop song to win the contest … so that you can feel validated … and forget how brainless you mind is when music outside of the trash pop is mentioned … you know nothing about but still you refuse to not feel fabulous about yourself despite the ignorance. I’m with you in that struggle … while eating some popcorn … but I’m with you nonetheless.

Oh Charles, the ” I know music” troll!
Unlike you I don’t pretend to know music. Unlike you and your idol Salvador I don’t look down on other people’s taste in music. Music is music, that’s it. Trash music as you call it may not have substance but for millions of people it has a value.

And finally unlike you I don’t pretend Salvador’s win is an earth shattering event. Outside the ESC bubble no one remembers it, don’t even think most ESC fans remembers it.
Also I don’t go around pretending his win will have a big impact if any impact at all.

So well articulated, Denis..
Salvador has real social integration issues – he believes he is so special and that he made the whole humanity a big favor to sing this nice, but otherwise very common song.

Just for his understanding – In an international song contest, there are rules that everyone respects. All participants are expected to be made aware and adhere to these rules before joining – and this is the responsibility of each country lead to educate their representatives.

No other country representative has benefited from special treatment as Salvador did and this was possible grace to EBU understanding.
He never said publicly ‘Thank you to EBU and all others for your kindness, understanding for my condition and support for the duration of the competition. I couldn’t have made it happen without your support etc..’
To criticizes EBU, after taking all these advantages, shows one more time who really is Salvador Sobral.
An egocentric person for which the rest of the world is there only to serve him.

About the content of his song – It’s about a men crying out for a girl to take him back, even she may not love him anymore, .. his love will be enough for both of them..
What is so special about these lyrics? .. In modern days, women want strong men next to them, not a desperate one..

It wasn’t the exceptional interpretation that gave the song that something special, but Sobral stage behavior that did it.. This was added to his well mediated health issue .. making it so real, that everyone wanted to give him a bit of comfort. (Luisa mentioned in at least one of her interviews about Salvador medical condition.. it wasn’t each country broadcast making it out, it was Luisa that made public, therefore, Portugal team – Luisa was part of it – should recognize they planned this as part of the strategy)

About Salvador support for Refugees – he imprinted a T-shirt with SOS refugees and walk around during the contest dressed in it – and he believed that was all about supporting the refugees.

When now asked to really get involved and help them for real, he politely refused as he doesn’t understand the whereabouts … (politics etc).
Well, again, for Salvador personal development benefits – when you decide to support a cause, you need to ensure that you really understand what it is about, who is behind it, what you can do or who you can influence to do something etc. With all of these in mind, you’ll then decide if you really want to support the cause, associate yourself with that etc.. This is called acting with maturity, responsibility, intelligence, showing that you actually have something in mind, you care and you’re looking forward to help those people etc..
Instead – you showed again how immature and superficial your are, how little you really understand and cares about what’s going on around you.
And one more note – Salvador, my dear, we are in 2017 – we all have TVs, internet, facebook, twitter etc, we know there are refugees that need help.. This was one of the most mediated subject and helped (in association with some other topics) BREXIT (google it if you haven’t hear about it..).
Germany (and the whole EU) have had very strong discussions with Turkey to keep the refugees in Turkey and EU to give Turkey consistent support for these people.. etc..
Also, there was a quoted number of refugees to join each EU country – another controversial topic that end up in Hungary building up a border fence to keep refugees away etc (I’m really sorry for those people, being treated as inventory items.. how many per country .. must be an awful feeling.. etc)..
So, as you can see, these are talks and actions going on and on for few years now.. It looks like, my dear, you switched on the TV just right before coming to EUROVISION.. Welcome in the real world..!!!

Do you think the EBU was right to threaten disqualification if Salvador rehearsed in English? Yes, the rehearsals weren’t just for him, but for the entire team trying to put together a complicated programme. He hadn’t thought of them, had he P.pt.

First of all, he didn’t complain in any way that his request was denied, he was actually praising the work of someone else in the portuguese team.
Secondly, singing in english with the same music in one of the rehearsals wouldn’t in any way interfere with the team responsible for the show. It would only matter to the jury, which had every right to refuse.

Perhaps he thought about singing one time in english because everybody was asking him about the meaning of the lyrics. Of course he was not planning to go against the rules. Fortunately, he understood that it was not allowed and did not sing in english. 🙂

I guess it was a good thing that the jury knew what they were doing!!! Cause OBVIOUSLY Salvador was the right choice, both televote and jury agreed in the semifinals and final that he was the winner awarding him the highest amount of points in the Eurovision Song Contest history this far… Can’t argue with that!!

Nova Glória it’s not a slow ballad, and it reminds me something ‘epic’ like Grande Amore and Senhora do Mar and Viva La Diva looks a like karaoke singers.
They were lucky to sing in last in the final and semifinal, this is one of the reasons of their high votes.

My first choice was always Amar pelos Dois, so I can’t really understand this generalization. Apparently more people voted in Viva la Diva than in Salvador so I can’t argue with that, but Pedro Goncalves was outvoted by both artists. Another thing to add is that after the first semi final of the NC, Salvador YouTube video had five times more viewings than viva la diva inspite of televotes. Anyway, thank god for juries in this case.

Rule is rule, language of song is dertemined on HOD for Eurovision in march, after that you can t change the language. And he is humanist who tell to Greece, Italy, Turkey open border for milions of people from Africa , Asisa and we know that refuges don t want to go to Portugal to live, they want to live in Germany,Austria,Sweden…

In order to get to Germany and Sweden … they need to pass those Greek and Italian borders … as you know human beings can’t fly or have super powers to teleport from one place to another … but I can always make a drawing of the whole thing for you if you wish. It work for 5th graders.

Singing in English would essentially make it a different song to the one submitted and approved. I absolutely love Salvador, but he has the rest of his (hopefully long) life to sing in any language he likes. I agree it would have been unfair to let him sing in English, rehearsal or not. I also wonder if this English version is a direct translation of the Portuguese or different lyrics entirely. Rules is rules, kids.

Again – I love both Salvador & Luisa and am so happy that they won.

P.S. Does anybody know if the “Salvador Sobral” on Twitter (@sobral_salvador) is actually the real Salvador? I don’t think it is, but he’s doing a good job pretending.

Just reading some of the comments here!!
Such a humble winner… …when calling ESC a circus(wiwibloggs red carpet interview) and other competing songs( disposable sickening music) is considered humble……..

Based on this….i think the user Polegend Gagarina should take lessons on humility from him…..cause she doesnt seem humble enough!!

Do you understand context?
First he says he was overwhelmed (he had just arrived from the airport, the last one on the red carpet), then he looks around at the rest of the reporters and says he wasn’t expecting that – he wasn’t commenting about the contest he wasn’t commenting what was happening at the red carpet.

What you are saying makes no sense. Having an opinion about a part doesn’t become an opinion about the all thing.
Why do you bother?

EvanMay 27, 2017 @ 3:35 pm

I will obviously bother about my opinion….. Its you who has no independent opinion other than negating others views without substance…. Say what you have to say as an independent opinion in a separate comment!! Stop replying to peoples’s comments once you see they are not in a mood to listen to you.

P.ptMay 27, 2017 @ 4:06 pm

People can show their own independent opinions without having to write isolated comments, it’s a free world in many shapes and sizes, not just the way you like. And in this case it wasn’t even about opinions but about things presented as facts, whose source I questioned, since it was clearly wrong. It seems you simply don’t like being corrected, and when you loose an argument you attack the other person.

EvanMay 28, 2017 @ 12:11 am

You said I’m unwilling to accept that people can in fact like the song!! Have you seen me go on a comment appreciating the song and me saying no that’s not possible!! No . Cause I haven’t done that. Its you who is trying to impose your opinion on me . You can totally correct factual errors like you did……but my opinion is correct for me and I’m asking you to try forming your own opinion rather than trying to question mine.

Know the meaning of attacking people . I am not questioning your judgement unlike what you have been doing the entire time. Peace.

EvanMay 28, 2017 @ 12:18 am

@polegend gagarina

Exactly the issue i have. (almost)No one cares that what song won.
All focus is on the winner.And for me that’s the failure of the concept of ESC.

P.ptMay 28, 2017 @ 1:22 am

@ Evan, how the hell have I tried to impose my opinion on you? I have no problem with you or anyone else not liking the song, that is a normal thing to happen, people have different tastes.
But when you basically claim to know how other people feel and think about the song, people like me and others here, you are overstepping. That is you being unwilling to accept that a lot people liked the song, because you don’t accept that millions of people voted because of it, when for months people have been praising the song, singing it, playing it.. You need some extrinsic explanation that has nothing to do with singing, which somehow also influenced juries in dozens of countries.
And lastly, when you stop commenting about the subject and start arguing that someone else has no right to comment, that he has no opinion, that is questioning someone else’s judgement.

EvanMay 28, 2017 @ 6:16 am

See miss I’ve said why I believe what I believe…..you are asking me to not believe in facts or my interpretation of them and listen to your Mumbo-Jumbo instead and then accusing me of being unaccomodative!!
Many places have mentioned how many Jurors who had ranked Portugal’s song below 5 in semi -1 suddenly ranked him 1 in the grand final!! Everyone is prone to influence!! If you don’t want to see then don’t ……don’t falsify what is true.

P.ptMay 28, 2017 @ 12:20 pm

@ Evan, you don’t get it, do you? You made an opinion about a group of other people opinions, which includes mine. Worst you stated as a fact that few people praised the song, which is simply not true! The song even won a prize for best composition at the Eurovision, go figure.
You keep on giving excuses. Portugal also won the semi-final jury vote by a wide margin, and also won the televote in the semi. The difference in jury votes between the final and semi was only 9 votes, grouping the same countries in common. Second place would still be way way behind!

What is good and disposable for you may not be for me!! I find Amar pelos dois more disposable than Hey mamma and Spotify seems to agree. Do not question the opinion of others when they are based on tastes rather than facts.

Hopefully he’ll get to perform that (and maybe the other song) on one of his tour stops or on TV!

The EBU is quite lucky the Sobrals are so blase about the entire thing, cause even though they accommodated Salvador’s condition, it seems they were giving him issues the entire week he was there. If it were just a dress rehearsal (which I’m assuming considering the strictness between the jury/televised final), I don’t see anything wrong with changing the lyrics. We all saw the video of him changing it up (esp. using his ‘trumpet’) during one of the rehearsals and the audience going wild for it.

Nobody should be forced to disclose details of health issues just to satisfy public scepticism, especially not a performer. It’s enough that the EBU accepted the gravity of his situation,. While I’m here, the version of Amar Pelos Dois at Eurovision is not jazz.

I’m OK with the disqualification-if-you-modify threat. Every other country has to commit to a finalized version well before the contest, and stick to that finalized version throughout the contest. No exceptions.

Letting just one of the nations “experiment a little” when juries are already paying attention would not be fair to everyone else, locked in.

I don’t think it was his intention to change the music in anyway for the competition. He only wanted to have some fun and relax during the rehearsals that were mandatory. He told that story to say that people in the portuguese delegation were very patient with him, that they were all a family. He wasn’t disagreeing with rules.

I’m glad Portugal (the country) finally won the Eurovision, but this guy is starting to get on my nerves.

His victory speech was rather rude and disrespectful of the other entries.

Plus, what precisely are these “health problems” he has? Is it really a heart transplant he’s waiting for? He didn’t have to say what it is, but he could have at least clarified that “no, it’s not a heart transplant.”

The tabloid magazines had started to say he had a heart problem, I only believed when RTP said it. Obviously his health condition is not relevant to ESC, it was relevant only for two technical rehearsals.
But Salvador don’t want much drama about it.

Salvador is an annoying diva with no respect for esc and his fellow competitors and i really wish he would be disqualified. At least Kristian was a humble down to earth guy fully committed to the competition with a better song and he truly deserved to win unlike the ungrateful salva-diva

Well, yes, I do think they were right to threaten that, because rules are rules, regardless of the contestant. I think singing it in English would change the song quite drastically, and if they’ve already decided that they’ll sing it in Portuguese, they have to sing it in Portuguese, especially since the dress-rehearsals are watched by the juries, who make up half of the vote.

Aargh!! Yes so was Moldova not allowed to rehearse in French last year
and she didn’t make a fuss out of it
and the Bulgarians were celebrating because for them it was a victory too!!All people with normal IQ got it…..duh!!
Autism doesn’t seem that unlikely now
Ok I’m cranky with the winning song…..Still love and respect to the Siblings.

They didn’t make a fuss out of it. They just explained it on portuguese tv. The bulgarian kid made a fuss about loosing , by crying like a little baby on tv, guess he’s the one with a low IQ. get over it, evan trololol.

He didn’t make any fuss out of it. He mentioned it just as an anecdote, to praise RTP’s team for being so supportive of him and doing everything they could to accommodate his artistic extravagances, even if sometimes that could harm Portugal’s chances to do well in the contest. That happened, for example, with the refugee’s shirt and also when he was bored with so many repetitive rehearsals and wanted to play a bit in the dress rehearsal (the one where played the “trumpet”). Of course, he didn’t try to sing an English version during the jury’s rehearsal…

The Bulgarian boy made a fuss about not winning by saying his performance and song were better than Portugal and he deserved it much more… The siblings were only explaining what happened.. you know having a “normal” conversation about stuff that happens in life.. in this case at Eurovision

And by the way there are hundreds of videos out there from people singing that song, many of them don’t even speak portuguese and try to sing in portuguese anyway. While others sing in english, french, etc, or play an instrument.

Telling stories is not making a fuss.
They were only trying to explain how they didn’t immediately realize that they had won, because they didn’t know if the announcement was for the winner or the second place and the bulgarian celebration confused them momentarily.

-.- They didn’t say it can’t be translated. Of course it can be translated – it was translated and it was even posted here, on Wiwibloggs XD what they said is that an English version of the song wouldn’t sound as good as the original. Salvador just tried to sing the English version during the last rehearsal (not the jury rehearsal) before the final for fun!!! Nothing else.

In 1999 the Norwegian delegation (with Jon Ola Sand at its head) wanted Croatia to be disqualified for using recorded vocals (just some “ooooh”s)… and in 2017 EBU allows none other than Norway to use pre-recorded vocals. I guess as long as the juries favor Scandinavia and Australia, EBU is happy!

Obrigado sweet sweet Bernardo! I saw many interviews of Salvador in Portugal post-winning including the one mentioned but sadly I don’t understand a damn thing. So thank you for pointing out some things they said! Xo

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